Stepan S. Burtsov

Stepan Stanislavovich Burtsov (14 May 1848-17 October 1906) was the Mayor of Yuzhne under the Russian Empire.

Biography
Stepan Stanislavovich Burtsov was born on 14 May 1848 in Zelenodolsk, Russian Empire to a family of ethnic Russians, and he would enter the civil service in 1871 after graduating from the University of Moscow. Burtsov was appointed Mayor of Yuzhne in 1889, and he would prevent the Ukrainian language from being instructed in the town. Burtsov enforced the czar's rule in the town, and he was known to have embezzled money for himself. In 1906, he was assassinated by Grisha Archipenko with a revolver as he left the mayor's home in Yuzhne to address rioters during the 1905 Russian Revolution.